Operations Manager Contracts with Work from Home Options

Operations Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Operations Manager daily rate in Work from Home is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 424 565
Rank change year-on-year +90 +141 -121
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Manager 13 43 54
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.086% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.18% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 39
10th Percentile - £325 £313
25th Percentile £375 £440 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -14.89% +17.50%
75th Percentile £481 £600 £675
90th Percentile £493 £654 £753
UK median daily rate £475 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -20.83% +2.56% +17.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £24.75 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -69.44% - -
75th Percentile £30.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £39.34 £90.00 £35.20
% change year-on-year -56.29% +155.68% +40.80%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,116 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,456 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.42 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Operations Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Operations Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Operations Manager trend for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Operations Manager.

Operations Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Manager
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Operations Manager.

Operations Manager hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Operations Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Operations Manager in the job title.

1 3 (23.08%) Logistics
1 3 (23.08%) Statistics
1 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Management
1 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (23.08%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco
1 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Proactive Management
1 3 (23.08%) Power BI
1 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
1 3 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Health Technology
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
2 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
3 1 (7.69%) Service Management
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (7.69%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (7.69%) IT Strategy
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) People Management
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Project Management

Operations Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Power BI
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
2 2 (15.38%) Health Technology
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Management
1 3 (23.08%) Logistics
1 3 (23.08%) Proactive Management
1 3 (23.08%) Statistics
2 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
2 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
3 1 (7.69%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) IT Strategy
3 1 (7.69%) People Management
3 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
3 1 (7.69%) Project Management
3 1 (7.69%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (7.69%) Security Operations
3 1 (7.69%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco